inability to discern the truth due to conflicting testimony
to become damp; to become moist; to become wet; to lack energy; to be in a slump; to be in low spirits
moss; short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)
to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn
to look up (at); to look up to; to respect; to ask for (e.g. guidance); to seek; to depend on
to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out
close; intimate; on good terms
inseparable (esp. bond, relationship); inextricable; joined at the hip; integral; essential; cannot be broken (cut, separated)
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
left arm; left-handed (baseball pitcher)
sleeve; wing (of a stage, desk, gate, etc.)
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
clotted blood; gore; sticky clots of blood
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)
to succeed in doing; to manage to do; to finish doing
way of murdering; killing method; way of using a sword
acting rashly; running wildly; runaway (process); reckless baserunning
heating; application of heat
to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
overheating; overexcitement
different (quality, nature); heterogeneous
pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
to be outpushed; to lose a pushing competition
cool; chilly; feeling nice and cold
to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
killing a would-be avenger; having the tables turned on someone (e.g. by a challenger); being beaten at one's own game
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
to push out; to project; to stick out; to hand over (e.g. to the police)
dangling; hanging; suspended; pending; half done; in limbo
midwinter; cold season; coldest days of the year
creaking; groaning (e.g. under physical stress)
to jar; to creak; to grate
snappingly; with a snap; merely ...; having just ...